ἀντέχειν (antechein)

ἀντέχειν is an Ancient Greek form of ἀντέχω, meaning “hold out, resist”. It is the present active infinitive.

Found 101 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.103.1: οἱ δ’ ἐν Ἰθώμῃ δεκάτῳ ἔτει, ὡς οὐκέτι ἐδύναντο ἀντέχειν, ξυνέβησαν πρὸς τοὺς Λακεδαιμονίους ἐφ’ ᾧ ἐξίασιν ἐκ Πελοποννήσου ὑπόσπονδοι καὶ μηδέποτε ἐπιβήσονται αὐτῆς· ἢν δέ τις ἁλίσκηται, τοῦ λαβόντος εἶναι δοῦλον.

Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae 3.50.5: … ὐδὲ τὴν αὐτὴν ἔτι γνώμην ἅπαντες φυλάττοντες ʽτοῖς μὲν γὰρ ἐδόκει παραδιδόναι τὴν πόλιν, τοῖς δὲ μέχρι παντὸς ἀντέχεινʼ διʼ αὐτὸ τὸ στασιάζειν μάλιστα καταπονούμενοι κατὰ κράτος ἑάλωσαν.

All forms of ἀντέχω (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.